This is an excellent metaphor. Monetary and fiscal policy should be operating in concert.
When we go into a recession, if we stimulate through driving down interest rates and running up deficits, they're in concert, but right now we're trying to cool down the economy because the economy's too hot, as the governor has told us repeatedly in the monetary policy report.
What we're doing on the fiscal side is that we're counteracting, cancelling or partially cancelling or offsetting what the central bank is doing, so we should be sterilizing—that's the technical term—the deficit. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't be spending on pharmacare or whatever; it just means that any increases in our spending should be covered by an offsetting reduction somewhere else.